{"id":139119,"date":"2025-10-26T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139119"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:00:14","slug":"science-drives-chinas-westward-expansion-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139119","title":{"rendered":"Science drives China\u2019s westward expansion in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor decades, China\u2019s influence in Africa has been concentrated in the eastern part of the continent. In recent years, a clear westward expansion has emerged, drawing attention from the United States and several western European nations.<br \/>\nMany analyses have framed this shift as geopolitically driven \u2013 a strategic effort by Beijing to erode Western nations\u2019 traditional interests on the continent, with particular attention paid to political and military cooperation between China and West African&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3330354\/science-drives-chinas-westward-expansion-africa?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor decades, China\u2019s influence in Africa has been concentrated in the eastern part of the continent. In recent years, a clear westward expansion has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}